Busy bees

Today we have not only been busy bees' but we have also been watching some very busy bee's collecting pollen. We started the day with a litter pick around our woodland area, thankfully most of our woods was litter free, but we did find a few littered areas where our fences run next to the road. We talked about how in the past litter picking has been used as some kind of punishment when you get in trouble at school. We decided it is time to 'Reclaim the Litter pick' no longer a punishment but instead a therapeutic time, finding the things that don't fit into our natures glorious picture. We decided that there is something very satisfying about making an area bee-autiful again! In the gardens Polly-tunnel we found some stripy bugs that looked like a cross between a crane fly and a wasp, after some research we think their called ichneumon a type of parasitoid wasp! In the afternoon we went back to the woods, where the blackberries are getting ready to make an appearance. The bramble flowers were a hive of activity, with bees buzzing from one bloom to the next. We spotted a few different type of bumble bee and lots of honey bees too. What a wonderful day full of new discoveries!